Why Can't America Teach Writing? - Simon’s Newsletter
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A blogger's lament
Why Can't America Teach Writing? A blogger's lament Simon Jul 25, 2023 7 4 1 Share I gulped as I took back the booklet with shaking hands. I put it in my fraying purple folder, where it sits unopened to this day. This wasn’t a booklet forced into your hands by an intimidating yet freakishly friendly man on the street—it was the final project for my high school senior year creative nonfiction class. The booklet was relegated to collecting dust not because high school was ending (I couldn’t wait to be free of all responsibility), but because I had written about something I legitimately cared abo
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